I've begun the Find Your Joy Taster Course -- a free online class offered by abstract landscape artist, Louise Fletcher. The assignments are exciting to do, and they uncover so much within me -- what I like, what I don't like, how I feel about failure, why I paint.
The instructions for the painting above were to take a 22" x 30" sheet of heavy paper, tape off the edges and tape off 6 "windows," and then paint as if the whole paper was your canvas. For our palette, we were to choose one each red, yellow & blue plus black and white. Then we were instructed to set a timer for 30 minutes and paint what felt good. If it didn't feel viscerally good & make us happy, we were to stop and choose some other approach.
Louise said to act like Kindergarten children and simply play with the paint. Let go.
I gessoed up my sheet of illustration board, squirted out some paints, and let loose.
Holy cow! The experience felt fully engaging, empowering & joyful. I loved the sensation of swirling the brush thick with paint over the illustration board. Bright color contrasts and quick scraping back with the brush handle felt natural and expressive. I fell in love with this form of painting.
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